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This might escalate into some real fun - or some real jail time if these goobers actually try any of this nonsense.

 

Truly sad. The monsters under the bed are real. They are the GOP.

 

FAFO

 

Nut Grafs Hall Of Fame nomination ...
("John Amos" is the coal-fired power plant.)

When I look at John Amos today, I see fire and rising seas, disease and hunger. I see a rusting industrial contraption that takes CO2 captured by trees 300 million years ago and rereleases it into the sky, bringing the heat of the past to our future. Coal plants are one of the primary reasons why shopping malls were burning in Colorado this winter and reservoirs in the West are dry. They are why Antarctica is cracking up, threatening the future of virtually every low-lying city in the world, from Boston to Bangkok. They are why infectious-disease patterns are changing in Nepal and crops are failing in Kenya and roads are washing out in Appalachia.

At this point in human evolution, burning coal for power is one of the stupidest things humans do. Coal plants are engines of destruction, not progress. Thanks to the rapid evolution of clean energy, there are many better, cheaper, cleaner ways to power our lives. The only reason anyone still burns coal today is because of the enormous political power and inertia that the industry has acquired since the 19th century. In America, that power and inertia is embodied in the cruel and cartoonish character of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who, paradoxically, may have more control over the trajectory of the climate crisis than any other person on the planet right now. Kidus Girma, a 26-year-old Sunrise Movement activist who helped organize protests against Manchin this past fall, calls him “the final villain.”

 

As many MAGA-asshats like to point out, DC is crime-ridden. The DC cops have been handling bad-ass drug dealers, gang-bangers, etc., for decades. I think they can handle a few of these tools.

 

Where are the Ukrainian grandmothers with Molotov cocktails when you need them ?

 

Sen. Chris Coons missed his opportunity. Following Ted Cruz, he should have asked: “Judge Jackson, you went to law school with Sen. Cruz. Did everyone in your class hate him?”